Lately all I've done has been simple papercraft creation with a really small amount of any mixed media, so having a full size inspiration to create a canvas felt quite happy and expected. But also really hard! The touch of wet gesso in my hands didn't feel the same so I needed really work with getting my mood "on".

Last visit to Poland was still on my mind, so the barbie workshop with Olga inspired me to take all broken barbies from my daughters and cut their heads off. And cut the heads in half. And glue them on to canvas.

And the rest is all coloring, experimenting new 13arts products like Shiny Powders.

First one with July Hip Kits - quite amazing summer vibes in colors right!?

I felt again so lucky to be able to create beautiful layouts with Hip Kit Club kits, all products in those extra large kits were so tempting. But can't fit all into one layout, and actually that's good. Not too much in one for me please.

So for this layout I decided to show the basics what to do with July Color Kit. It features mist, paints and stencil, so really basic techniques but again something you might want to try.
All recorded to a process video, so enjoy watching!

Do you remember the song 'One piece at the time' by Johnny Cash? Well, if not don't worry. It's a super happy song with very catchy chorus and when I took this motorcycling selfie of me and hubby, I immediately started to sing the song. Especially the part as the title in the layout.

And as the theme is motorcycling, of course I picked up circle design and dark, masculine colors.

Time to continue this happy journey with June 2016 Hip Kits, today with very dreamy theme of my sleeping puppy. Gosh, she was so cute whilst she was sleeping in my bed. Yep, in my bed. But hey, she was just ten weeks old during the time the picture was taken. Can. Not. Resist. Her.

Now she is six and half months old and she already had her first "special lady weeks". Baby is growing up so fast and no more sleeps in my bed.

The June Color kit included some nice placemats from Jillibean Soup, and the word "perfection" was really perfect for this picture, so I did some embossing and coloring and made it look even better. At least in my opinion.

The same patterns are all over the background too, you can see the creation process and details from the video above. Talking of which, I couldn't speak it through so it's with subtitles - sorry! The holiday time makes our house quite noisy, so I didn't even try to get any silence around here. Summer is for living and playing, not for staying quiet to get Mom recording her vids, right? After few weeks I'll be back to speaking mode and you can be entertained with my special Finglish accent, hah!

I'm so happy to share this bottle for you today! Found these fun shaped bottles from my Mom's attic - my Granpa was a man who kept everything. Mom was taking these to recycled but I grapped few to make something nice. Some of the bottles was used as a candlesticks, no need to say more about from where the inspiration came. Oh the beautiful stearin!

I used 13arts products to alter the bottle, and you can read more about the creation process from 13arts blog, here.

Applying gesso layers, playing with hot glue and painting the bottle was one of the calming processes I've done. And it all came together so easily. Hope you enjoy seeing it, and hope you are inspired!